I’m Spencer Barton, and these are your headlines for: November 20 th , 1874

The Civil Rights bill has sat on the tables of Congress for nearly four years now. The time has come for a final push to get the bill into law before it becomes completely lost to the public conscience and progress towards an equal country is stunted.

We examine the efficacy of Temperance Legislation in the driest state in the Union, Maine.

And later, I recount the events of last Sunday as hundreds of men in Keokuk took up arms to prevent an attack by the Kukulx which never happened.

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Time stamps:

00:24 - Into

00:46- Headlines

01:15 - HCHT Ad

02:13 - The Civil Rights Bill

09:34 - Does Prohibition, Prohibit?

14:29 - Sponsor: J.S. Wertz Weather Strip

15:12 - News Nuggets

19:47 - An Attack That Didn't Happen

23:23 - Outro

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